Hi Brad > I've researched the OpenDBX source files and have found that not > all column types are being returned. It seems most databases > supported have this anomaly. I'm curious as to why? > > It doesn't make sense to me why each database interface program > wouldn't support all types for that database. I must not > understand something. Please educate me.
OpenDBX supports the ANSI data types which have a defined format and semantics. Database vendors invented much more data types for special cases which doesn't fit into the ANSI scheme. These special data types are summarized as TYPE_UNKNOWN in OpenDBX which only means that they doesn't fit into the existing ANSI types and their data is returned in its native format without any conversion. So TYPE_UNKNOWN is only another data type for all remaining database specific types. Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ libopendbx-devel mailing list libopendbx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libopendbx-devel http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX
